Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:49:52 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: nightrecon@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does freebsd supports ipx? Message-ID: <CAHHBGkrfA-0vHTMj4E%2BB8PGL_idERdkpeN%2B9mmGN1o=g%2BknM=A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <k596qs$tnv$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <CAEcL0ZzTYyRFhFmXRSk4V7XwJhQd-1j40mZ0Y_xb0XkaJp1zpg@mail.gmail.com> <k596qs$tnv$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On 12 October 2012 09:44, Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> wrote: > YC Wang wrote: > > [snip] >> syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in >> /boot/kernel/ on freebsd. >> >> So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work >> I should do for this purpose? > > I believe what you read in Wikipedia may be out of date. Someone correct me > if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that IPX was dropped from FreeBSD and is > no longer supported. The code went unmaintained for too long and succumbed > to bit rot, so eventually it was pulled. > > What I am unclear about is exactly when this happened. It wasn't all that > long ago. > "options IPX" is still valid in 9.1-RC2. -- --
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